The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-03

settled 1t, and the engineer was LEI
out, stripped OF his clothing, and tiet
securely to the stake. Had | refused
to look on, it would have been takei
as an act OF cowardice on my part
Reading this l stepped outside tn
lodge and stood within ten feet OF th
stake. Sewell wept and begged Will
being made fast, but when they step
ped back he suddenly grew calm ant
asked OF me:
Taylor, what does this all mean
What are they going to do with me?'
"rhey are going to torture you, Mr.
Sewell."
"Are you a prisoner, too?"
eyes, and they will torture me ate
finishing YOU"
my God! but this is awful haw
$500 at the camp. Won't they take
that and release ns?"
replied that if we were worth million
dollars piece we could not purchase
our liberty under the circumstances
and advisedhim to cal up all his conr
age and seek to die like man. Any
sign OF weakness on his part would
excite contempt and increased torture
and the better way was to defy then
to do their worst ] believe he trec
his best to brace up, but his nerves
were dreadfully shattered, and after
three or four minutes he began crying
again. This had just the effect | pre-
dicted. Half a hundred boys wert
sent off to cut switches, and wher
they returned they were told to &C
ahead and applythem to the engineer
The idea was to whip some courage
into him, but it was fiat failure
Almost at the first blow the MAJ
cried out like woman, and, his feet
not having yet been tied, ne danced
about like u puppet. called out tc
him to kick his tormentors, but h
paid no heed to my voice, and after
time he stood stock still and let the
boys whip him until blood was drawn
in a score OF places. All this time he
cried like q boy four or five years old
and heard some OF the old warriors
say that he was the most cowardly
white man that they had ever met
He may have lacked courage, but
always believed his conduct to have
been the result OF his shattered men
tai and physical condition.
After the boys had switched him fol
ten minutes they were called of, and
couple OF warriors advanced with
their muzzle.loading rifles and began
to fire charges OF powder into the
poor fellows flesh. Does it hurt!
Well, sir, hell can't be any worse. I've
had dozen charges fired into me, and
never felt any pain to equal it. I'll
take two bullets in preference to one
charge OF powder every time. The
first charge set him 10 dancing and
screaming. and at the third OF
fourth he kicked one OF the warriors
over, and became so savage that they
had to fully bind him to the stake.
They fired thirty-four charges in all,
and by the time they had finished you
could not have told that Sewell was
a white man. His agony was some
thing awful, and he writhed about with
such strength that the stake had
twice to be driven deeper. His shrieks
ank screams, as | afterward knew,
were heard distance of more than
two miles, and yet this was only the
beginning OF what they had in store
tor him.
The next move was to apply the
burning sticks. Some green sticks had
been put upon the fire on purpose, and
three or four warriors applied the
burning ends to various portions OF
the engineers body. The pain fairly
drove him crazy, and in n short time
he tainted. Water was brought from
the stream and dashed over him, and
during this interval many warriors
crowded around me to see how | was
bearing up.
"Dogsl Do you think you can
make The Long Death cry like thatY
! shouted at them. "Here, pull up
my trousers and see where the cow
ardly Sioux shot powder into my legs.
Pull off my boots and find where the
Cheyennes applied the fire sticks.
Did | weep like % woman? Go ask
them. And when you ask that, in.
quire who killed the Black Eagle, Red
Horse. Big Mountain, Great Buffalo
and Black Feather. They will tell
you, The Long Death.
But for the presence OF four or five
chiefs l should have done for on the
spot, so excited we're the young men.
BY this time Sewell had regained his
senses, and was sobbing and wailing
again, and they went back to their
sport. A warrior approached him
with a sharp knife and slashed him in
fifty different places, each cut being
deep enough to be painful, but none
OF them very serious. The gush OF
blood soon turned the man into a
horrible looking object, and several
times he would have tainted had they
not had water at hand to throw over
him. He had screamed so loud and
long that his voice was now entirely